In December 2009, Nicolas Seriot presented (PDF) a harvesting application, SpyPhone. This application grabs data as sensitive as location data and a cache of keyboard words. It neither requires jailbreaking nor makes Private API calls (which Apple's App Store does not allow in any application it distributes).

Tools

iphone Data Protection is a set of tools that can image and decrypt an iPhone. The tools can even brute-force the iPhone's 4-digit numerical password.

Jonathan Zdziarski has released tools that will image iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch. (law enforcement only).

libimobiledevice is a library with utilities for backing up iPhones. The output format is an iTunes-style backup that can be examined with traditional tools. They are available in the Debian-testing packages libimobiledevice and libimobiledevice-utils.